When lined up against its rivals, the 2014 Opel Insignia is faster, prettier and simply better. But for all the power and tech it packs in, it costs a surprising AED 45,000 more than the Mazda6 and AED 33,000 more than the Toyota Camry. …

A bit player in the Middle East, the Opel Astra seems to chug along well behind the rest of the small German hatchbacks/compacts. The Astra is available as a five-door hatchback model with a choice of two four-cylinder powerplants – a 1.6-litre making 115 horsepower and a 1.8-litre with 140hp…

The Vectra is Opel’s contender in the mid-size car market and again like the Astra, hasn’t been pushed aggressively to highlight its capabilities. It is available as a four-door sedan and station-wagon along with a five-door hatchback, known as the Vectra GTS. The most distinctive feature of the Vectra is…

Opel is one of those brands that is slightly obscure here in the Middle East. This European subsidiary of General Motors is still testing the waters here in the region. The entry level car in their line-up is the Corsa that is available in two-door or four-door hatchback variants and…

The newest member in the mid-size crossover SUV segment here in the Middle East, the Antara is produced in South Korea by GM Daewoo, but sold under the Opel brand. The Antara is based on the GM Theta platform which shares its underpinnings and powertrains with the Terrain – GMC’s…

Fadi on Deesch Papke assigned CEO of Porsche Middle East and Africa FZETo whom it may concernI would like to share our frustration in dealing with Porsche and Al Nabooda in the last 10 years!After our first Cayan for my wife back in 2008 and the current Macan 2015 we decided to write this letter to Porsche directly.The main objective of AL Nabooda is to overcharge their customers specially on spare parts and the denial on the warranty coverage even on small requests and when you complaint about the prices they offer a big discount! when I refused to renew the Cayan warranty they agreed to change the hand rest!By the end of 2017 we decided to sell our Cayan and move to the new Macan model and that was the biggest mistake!We have bought a Macan S 2015 from Al Nabooda after waiting for several months, from the first 2 months we got a notification on the dashboard that we need to top up the oil, we went to the service center and they did it for us without any explanation!We continued on this annoying practice every couple of months!Another issue in the car was the AC bad smell which Al Nabooda charged us to change the filter and do the cleaning which was not covered by the warranty!This week I went back again to renew the useless warranty without clear answer on the oil consumption except the Porsche cars consume oil!I have been living in Dubai for the last 23 years. I had Boxter, Cayman, Cayan, BMW, Mercedes, etc... and currently I drive Maserati Ghibli and I have never heard that a car consume oil every 1000 km and above. I drive my Maserati car for 20,000 km without toping up or changing the oil!They also called me this week to inform me that the brake pads needs to be changed and the price is AED 4,700 and when I complained suddenly the price went down to AED 3,500!Please allow me to share my frustration with Al Nabooda and my great experience with Al Tayar Motors since 5 years and the way they respect warranty agreements with amazing services.We also decided to sell the Macan and never come back to any brand under Al Nabooda!